[ardour-users] Native file size limit

[timg]

timg wrote:

> timg wrote:
>
>> Lars Tobias Børsting wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Great program! I have just recorded my first long session with
>>> Ardour. Unfortunately, the recording stopped after some time. The 
>>> reason
>>> was that it couldn't write more data to its files. Looking in the
>>> project folder there is a folder called "sounds" which contains the
>>> actual track recordings. They seem to be in the standard
>>> wav-format. Both of the files ar 2.1 GB large, so I wonder if there is
>>> some limit in this format? I use reiserfs, so I know the file size 
>>> isn't
>>> limited by the filesystem. I read somewhere that wav-files have a size
>>> limit of 2.1 GB on 32-bit systems, however I exported my two mono 
>>> 2.1 GB
>>> tracks into a single stereo file of approx. 3 GBs.
>>>
>>> What might be the cause of this file size limit? Ardour version is
>>> 0.99.1.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>
>> Interesting.
>> what filesystem is your disk running?
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> I beleive it depends on the version.
>
>
http://www.namesys.com/faq.html#reiserfsspecs
specs are here

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